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Skill plan for Mirrors & Windows - 12th grade

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1	Unit 1 Heroes and Kings: Anglo-Saxon Period 449–1066
Development of the English Language: Old English
The Conversion of King Edwin, The Story of Cædmon, from Ecclesiastical History of the English People		Analyze literature 1. Trace an argument: set 1 Grammar and style 2. Identify and correct errors with subject-verb agreement 3. Identify and correct verb agreement with compound subjects
The Conversion of King Edwin, The Story of Cædmon, from Ecclesiastical History of the English People
Analyze literature 1. Trace an argument: set 1 Grammar and style 2. Identify and correct errors with subject-verb agreement 3. Identify and correct verb agreement with compound subjects

from Beowulf, from Beowulf (graphic novel), from Grendel, The Head of Humbaba		Analyze literature 1. Interpret the figure of speech 2. Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source Vocabulary and spelling 3. Use hyphens in compound adjectives
from Beowulf, from Beowulf (graphic novel), from Grendel, The Head of Humbaba
Analyze literature 1. Interpret the figure of speech 2. Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source Vocabulary and spelling 3. Use hyphens in compound adjectives

The Seafarer, The Wife's Lament		Analyze literature 1. Choose the word whose connotation and denotation best match the sentence Grammar and style 2. Identify vague pronoun references 3. Identify all of the possible antecedents
The Seafarer, The Wife's Lament
Analyze literature 1. Choose the word whose connotation and denotation best match the sentence Grammar and style 2. Identify vague pronoun references 3. Identify all of the possible antecedents
Writing Workshop
Writing Workshop		Informative writing 1. Identify elements of poetry 2. Use personification 3. Use words accurately and precisely 4. Correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person 5. Identify and correct errors with indefinite pronoun-verb agreement
Writing Workshop
Informative writing 1. Identify elements of poetry 2. Use personification 3. Use words accurately and precisely 4. Correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person 5. Identify and correct errors with indefinite pronoun-verb agreement

2	Unit 2 Social and Cultural Change: Medieval Period 1066–1485
Songs and Tales
Bonny Barbara Allan, Get Up and Bar the Door, Lord Randall, A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall		1. Match the quotations with their themes
Bonny Barbara Allan, Get Up and Bar the Door, Lord Randall, A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
1. Match the quotations with their themes

The Prologue from The Canterbury Tales		Analyze literature 1. Identify the narrative point of view Grammar and style 2. Identify sentence fragments
The Prologue from The Canterbury Tales
Analyze literature 1. Identify the narrative point of view Grammar and style 2. Identify sentence fragments

The Pardoner's Tale, The Wife of Bath's Tale, Simply Divine from The Guardian		Analyze literature 1. Identify audience and purpose Grammar and style 2. Identify run-on sentences
The Pardoner's Tale, The Wife of Bath's Tale, Simply Divine from The Guardian
Analyze literature 1. Identify audience and purpose Grammar and style 2. Identify run-on sentences
Chivalry and Romance
from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, from Le Morte d'Arthur, from The Art of Courtly Love		Analyze literature 1. Identify supporting evidence in a text Grammar and style 2. Is the sentence simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex?
from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, from Le Morte d'Arthur, from The Art of Courtly Love
Analyze literature 1. Identify supporting evidence in a text Grammar and style 2. Is the sentence simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex?

Federigo's Falcon		1. Analyze short stories: set 1
Federigo's Falcon
1. Analyze short stories: set 1
Writing Workshop
Write a Cover Letter and Résumé		1. Choose punctuation to avoid fragments and run-ons 2. Combine sentences using relative clauses 3. Which text is most formal? 4. Use the correct frequently confused word
Write a Cover Letter and Résumé
1. Choose punctuation to avoid fragments and run-ons 2. Combine sentences using relative clauses 3. Which text is most formal? 4. Use the correct frequently confused word

3	Unit 3 Rebirth of Culture and Ideas: Renaissance 1485–1625
Courtiers
Speech to the Troops at Tilbury, Elizabeth I, Queen of England		Analyze literature 1. Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 1 Grammar and style 2. Identify sentences with parallel structure
Speech to the Troops at Tilbury, Elizabeth I, Queen of England
Analyze literature 1. Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 1 Grammar and style 2. Identify sentences with parallel structure

Sonnets by Sir Thomas Wyatt, Sir Philip Sidney, Petrarch, and William Shakespeare		1. Use personification 2. Compare passages for subjective and objective tone
Sonnets by Sir Thomas Wyatt, Sir Philip Sidney, Petrarch, and William Shakespeare
1. Use personification 2. Compare passages for subjective and objective tone

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love, The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd		Analyze literature 1. Identify elements of poetry Vocabulary and spelling 2. Analogies
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love, The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd
Analyze literature 1. Identify elements of poetry Vocabulary and spelling 2. Analogies
Mind, Body, and Spirit
Psalm 23, The Prodigal Son		1. Classify the figure of speech: review
Psalm 23, The Prodigal Son
1. Classify the figure of speech: review

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, "Death, be not proud" (Holy Sonnet 10), A Quick and Rough Explication of Donne's "Holy Sonnet 10: Death, Be Not Proud"		Analyze literature 1. Classify the figure of speech: euphemism, hyperbole, oxymoron, paradox Grammar and style 2. Transitions with conjunctive adverbs
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, "Death, be not proud" (Holy Sonnet 10), A Quick and Rough Explication of Donne's "Holy Sonnet 10: Death, Be Not Proud"
Analyze literature 1. Classify the figure of speech: euphemism, hyperbole, oxymoron, paradox Grammar and style 2. Transitions with conjunctive adverbs
Writing Workshop
Write a Poetry Explication		1. Identify thesis statements 2. Organize information by topic 3. Choose the best evidence to support a claim 4. Use parallel structure 5. Complete the sentence with the correct pair of correlative conjunctions
Write a Poetry Explication
1. Identify thesis statements 2. Organize information by topic 3. Choose the best evidence to support a claim 4. Use parallel structure 5. Complete the sentence with the correct pair of correlative conjunctions

4	Unit 4 Comedy and Tragedy: Renaissance Drama 1485–1682
Macbeth
The Tragedy of Macbeth, Act I		Analyze literature 1. Use context to identify the meaning of a word Grammar and style 2. Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns 3. Identify and correct errors with compound and joint possession
The Tragedy of Macbeth, Act I
Analyze literature 1. Use context to identify the meaning of a word Grammar and style 2. Identify and correct errors with plural and possessive nouns 3. Identify and correct errors with compound and joint possession

The Tragedy of Macbeth, Act II		1. Classify the figure of speech: euphemism, hyperbole, oxymoron, paradox
The Tragedy of Macbeth, Act II
1. Classify the figure of speech: euphemism, hyperbole, oxymoron, paradox

The Tragedy of Macbeth, Act III, Macbeth from Characters of Shakespeare's Plays		Analyze literature 1. Analyze the development of informational passages: set 1 Grammar and style 2. Recall the source of an allusion
The Tragedy of Macbeth, Act III, Macbeth from Characters of Shakespeare's Plays
Analyze literature 1. Analyze the development of informational passages: set 1 Grammar and style 2. Recall the source of an allusion

The Tragedy of Macbeth, Act IV		Analyze literature 1. Analyze short stories: set 2 Vocabulary and spelling 2. Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context 3. Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context
The Tragedy of Macbeth, Act IV
Analyze literature 1. Analyze short stories: set 2 Vocabulary and spelling 2. Determine the meaning of words using synonyms in context 3. Determine the meaning of words using antonyms in context

The Tragedy of Macbeth, Act V, Comparing Shakespeare's Macbeth to Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland, The Analects		1. Match the quotations with their themes 2. Identify stronger and weaker evidence to support a claim
The Tragedy of Macbeth, Act V, Comparing Shakespeare's Macbeth to Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland, The Analects
1. Match the quotations with their themes 2. Identify stronger and weaker evidence to support a claim
Writing Workshop
Describe a Character		1. Avoid double, illogical, and unclear comparisons 2. Describe the difference between related words 3. Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives 4. Identify and correct errors with frequently confused words 5. Correct errors with signs
Describe a Character
1. Avoid double, illogical, and unclear comparisons 2. Describe the difference between related words 3. Form and use comparative and superlative adjectives 4. Identify and correct errors with frequently confused words 5. Correct errors with signs

5	Unit 5 Harmony and Reason: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 1625–1798
Ideas Old and New
Song ("Why so pale and wan")		1. Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone
Song ("Why so pale and wan")
1. Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone

To Althea, from Prison, To Lucasta, Going to Wars		Analyze literature 1. Match the quotations with their themes Grammar and style 2. Identify and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense
To Althea, from Prison, To Lucasta, Going to Wars
Analyze literature 1. Match the quotations with their themes Grammar and style 2. Identify and correct inappropriate shifts in verb tense

To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time, To His Coy Mistress		Analyze literature 1. Classify the figure of speech: euphemism, hyperbole, oxymoron, paradox Grammar and style 2. Correct capitalization errors
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time, To His Coy Mistress
Analyze literature 1. Classify the figure of speech: euphemism, hyperbole, oxymoron, paradox Grammar and style 2. Correct capitalization errors

"How soon hath Time" (Sonnet VII), "When I consider how my light is spent" (Sonnet XIX)		1. Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source
"How soon hath Time" (Sonnet VII), "When I consider how my light is spent" (Sonnet XIX)
1. Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source

from Paradise Lost, Genesis 1–3, from the Bible, from The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches		1. Classify the figure of speech: anaphora, antithesis, apostrophe, assonance, chiasmus, understatement
from Paradise Lost, Genesis 1–3, from the Bible, from The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches
1. Classify the figure of speech: anaphora, antithesis, apostrophe, assonance, chiasmus, understatement

from Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal		Analyze literature 1. Identify audience and purpose Vocabulary and spelling 2. Use etymologies to determine the meanings of words 3. Prefixes
from Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal
Analyze literature 1. Identify audience and purpose Vocabulary and spelling 2. Use etymologies to determine the meanings of words 3. Prefixes

from Candide		1. Analyze short stories: set 1
from Candide
1. Analyze short stories: set 1

from The Rape of the Lock, from An Essay on Man		Analyze literature 1. Trace an argument: set 2 Grammar and style 2. Choose between adjectives and adverbs 3. Misplaced modifiers with pictures 4. Select the misplaced or dangling modifier
from The Rape of the Lock, from An Essay on Man
Analyze literature 1. Trace an argument: set 2 Grammar and style 2. Choose between adjectives and adverbs 3. Misplaced modifiers with pictures 4. Select the misplaced or dangling modifier
Life and Times
from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, from A Journal of the Plague Year		1. Distinguish facts from opinions
from The Diary of Samuel Pepys, from A Journal of the Plague Year
1. Distinguish facts from opinions

from The Diary of Fanny Burney, Ten Steps to Keeping an On-Going Journal		Analyze literature 1. Analyze the development of informational passages: set 2 Grammar and style 2. Use words accurately and precisely
from The Diary of Fanny Burney, Ten Steps to Keeping an On-Going Journal
Analyze literature 1. Analyze the development of informational passages: set 2 Grammar and style 2. Use words accurately and precisely
Writing Workshop
Write a Satire		1. Identify stronger and weaker evidence to support a claim 2. Are the modifiers used correctly? 3. Replace words using a thesaurus 4. Correct errors in everyday use
Write a Satire
1. Identify stronger and weaker evidence to support a claim 2. Are the modifiers used correctly? 3. Replace words using a thesaurus 4. Correct errors in everyday use

6	Unit 6 New Freedom and Equality: Romantic Period 1798–1832
Beginnings of Romantic Thought
To a Mouse		1. Which text is most formal?
To a Mouse
1. Which text is most formal?

The Lamb, The Tyger, London		Analyze literature 1. Identify elements of poetry Grammar and style 2. Identify sentences with parallel structure
The Lamb, The Tyger, London
Analyze literature 1. Identify elements of poetry Grammar and style 2. Identify sentences with parallel structure

The World Is Too Much With Us, Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, from Preface to Lyrical Ballads		1. Recall the source of an allusion 2. Analyze the development of informational passages: set 1
The World Is Too Much With Us, Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, from Preface to Lyrical Ballads
1. Recall the source of an allusion 2. Analyze the development of informational passages: set 1

Kubla Khan, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner		Analyze literature 1. Analyze short stories: set 2 Vocabulary and spelling 2. Use context to identify the meaning of a word
Kubla Khan, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Analyze literature 1. Analyze short stories: set 2 Vocabulary and spelling 2. Use context to identify the meaning of a word
The Second Generation
She Walks in Beauty, from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage		1. Interpret the figure of speech
She Walks in Beauty, from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
1. Interpret the figure of speech

Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind		1. Classify the figure of speech: review
Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind
1. Classify the figure of speech: review

Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn		1. Classify the figure of speech: anaphora, antithesis, apostrophe, assonance, chiasmus, understatement
Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn
1. Classify the figure of speech: anaphora, antithesis, apostrophe, assonance, chiasmus, understatement

The Lorelei		1. Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone
The Lorelei
1. Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone
Writing Workshop
Write a Personal Essay		1. Use parallel structure 2. Formatting quotations and dialogue 3. Form and use comparative and superlative adverbs 4. Remove redundant words or phrases 5. Identify and correct errors with frequently confused pronouns and contractions
Write a Personal Essay
1. Use parallel structure 2. Formatting quotations and dialogue 3. Form and use comparative and superlative adverbs 4. Remove redundant words or phrases 5. Identify and correct errors with frequently confused pronouns and contractions

7	Unit 7 Reconciling Ideals and Realities: Victorian Era 1832–1901
A Realistic Approach
My Last Duchess, Porphyria's Lover		1. Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone
My Last Duchess, Porphyria's Lover
1. Analyze the effects of figures of speech on meaning and tone

from Great Expectations		Analyze literature 1. Analyze short stories: set 1 Grammar and style 2. Commas with compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences
from Great Expectations
Analyze literature 1. Analyze short stories: set 1 Grammar and style 2. Commas with compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences

from Jane Eyre		Analyze literature 1. Compare passages for tone Grammar and style 2. Identify appositives and appositive phrases 3. Commas with nonrestrictive elements
from Jane Eyre
Analyze literature 1. Compare passages for tone Grammar and style 2. Identify appositives and appositive phrases 3. Commas with nonrestrictive elements

from Madame Bovary		1. Use context as a clue to the meanings of foreign expressions
from Madame Bovary
1. Use context as a clue to the meanings of foreign expressions

from The Mayor of Casterbridge		1. Identify supporting evidence in a text
from The Mayor of Casterbridge
1. Identify supporting evidence in a text

The Darkling Thrush, Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?		Analyze literature 1. Identify elements of poetry Grammar and style 2. Is it a phrase or a clause? 3. Identify dependent and independent clauses 4. Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which, and that
The Darkling Thrush, Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?
Analyze literature 1. Identify elements of poetry Grammar and style 2. Is it a phrase or a clause? 3. Identify dependent and independent clauses 4. Use relative pronouns: who, whom, whose, which, and that
Faith and Doubt
The Lady of Shalott, Ulysses		Analyze literature 1. Identify stronger and weaker evidence to support a claim Vocabulary and spelling 2. Use the correct homophone 3. Identify and correct errors with homophones
The Lady of Shalott, Ulysses
Analyze literature 1. Identify stronger and weaker evidence to support a claim Vocabulary and spelling 2. Use the correct homophone 3. Identify and correct errors with homophones

When I Was One-and-Twenty, To an Athlete Dying Young, Cardiac Arrest in Healthy, Young Athletes		1. Analyze the development of informational passages: set 2
When I Was One-and-Twenty, To an Athlete Dying Young, Cardiac Arrest in Healthy, Young Athletes
1. Analyze the development of informational passages: set 2
Writing Workshop
Review a Short Story or Book		1. Trace an argument: set 1 2. Choose the best evidence to support a claim 3. Evaluate counterclaims 4. Choose the analysis that logically connects the evidence to the claim 5. Transition logically between claims, evidence, analysis, and counterclaims
Review a Short Story or Book
1. Trace an argument: set 1 2. Choose the best evidence to support a claim 3. Evaluate counterclaims 4. Choose the analysis that logically connects the evidence to the claim 5. Transition logically between claims, evidence, analysis, and counterclaims

8	Unit 8 Struggle for Peace and Progress: Modern Era 1901–1945
Battling for Hearts and Minds
The Rising of the Moon, Needed: An Irish National Theater		1. Analyze short stories: set 2
The Rising of the Moon, Needed: An Irish National Theater
1. Analyze short stories: set 2

The Rear-Guard, Dulce et Decorum Est, The War Letters of Wilfred Owen		1. Choose the word whose connotation and denotation best match the sentence
The Rear-Guard, Dulce et Decorum Est, The War Letters of Wilfred Owen
1. Choose the word whose connotation and denotation best match the sentence

I Explain a Few Things		Analyze literature 1. Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 1 Grammar and style 2. Commas with direct addresses, introductory elements, absolute phrases, interjections, interrupters, and antithetical phrases 3. Commas with series, dates, and places 4. Commas with compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences 5. Commas with coordinate adjectives
I Explain a Few Things
Analyze literature 1. Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 1 Grammar and style 2. Commas with direct addresses, introductory elements, absolute phrases, interjections, interrupters, and antithetical phrases 3. Commas with series, dates, and places 4. Commas with compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences 5. Commas with coordinate adjectives
Modernism
When You Are Old, The Wild Swans at Coole, The Lake Isle of Innisfree		1. Compare passages for tone
When You Are Old, The Wild Swans at Coole, The Lake Isle of Innisfree
1. Compare passages for tone

Araby		Analyze literature 1. Identify the narrative point of view Grammar and style 2. Join sentences with semicolons, colons, and commas 3. Use colons and commas to introduce lists, quotations, and appositives 4. Use semicolons and commas to separate items in a series
Araby
Analyze literature 1. Identify the narrative point of view Grammar and style 2. Join sentences with semicolons, colons, and commas 3. Use colons and commas to introduce lists, quotations, and appositives 4. Use semicolons and commas to separate items in a series

from A Room of One's Own, Mr Sassoon's Poems, Letter to Julian Bell		Analyze literature 1. Trace an argument: set 2 Vocabulary and spelling 2. Use words accurately and precisely 3. Explore words with new or contested usages
from A Room of One's Own, Mr Sassoon's Poems, Letter to Julian Bell
Analyze literature 1. Trace an argument: set 2 Vocabulary and spelling 2. Use words accurately and precisely 3. Explore words with new or contested usages

The Music of Poetry		1. Identify supporting evidence in a text
The Music of Poetry
1. Identify supporting evidence in a text

Preludes, The Hollow Men		1. Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source
Preludes, The Hollow Men
1. Interpret the meaning of an allusion from its source
Conflict at Home and Abroad
Wartime Speech, May 19, 1940, Defending Nonviolent Resistance		1. Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 2
Wartime Speech, May 19, 1940, Defending Nonviolent Resistance
1. Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 2

War Poet, Words		1. Classify the figure of speech: review
War Poet, Words
1. Classify the figure of speech: review

The Demon Lover		Analyze literature 1. Choose the best evidence to support a claim Grammar and style 2. Use dashes 3. Use hyphens in compound adjectives 4. Decide whether ellipses are used appropriately
The Demon Lover
Analyze literature 1. Choose the best evidence to support a claim Grammar and style 2. Use dashes 3. Use hyphens in compound adjectives 4. Decide whether ellipses are used appropriately
Writing Workshop
Analyze an Advertisement		1. Identify appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in advertisements 2. Use appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in persuasive writing 3. Commas: review 4. Correct errors with commonly misspelled words 5. Suggest appropriate revisions 6. Semicolons, colons, and commas: review
Analyze an Advertisement
1. Identify appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in advertisements 2. Use appeals to ethos, pathos, and logos in persuasive writing 3. Commas: review 4. Correct errors with commonly misspelled words 5. Suggest appropriate revisions 6. Semicolons, colons, and commas: review

9	Unit 9 Finding a Place in the World: Postmodern Era 1945–Present
Realizations
Shooting an Elephant		Analyze literature 1. Identify thesis statements Vocabulary and spelling 2. Sort words by shared Greek or Latin roots 3. Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words
Shooting an Elephant
Analyze literature 1. Identify thesis statements Vocabulary and spelling 2. Sort words by shared Greek or Latin roots 3. Use Greek and Latin roots as clues to the meanings of words

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, Fern Hill		1. Identify audience and purpose
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, Fern Hill
1. Identify audience and purpose

Not Waving but Drowning		1. Classify the figure of speech: anaphora, antithesis, apostrophe, assonance, chiasmus, understatement
Not Waving but Drowning
1. Classify the figure of speech: anaphora, antithesis, apostrophe, assonance, chiasmus, understatement

That's All		1. Identify supporting evidence in a text
That's All
1. Identify supporting evidence in a text

The Horses		1. Interpret the figure of speech
The Horses
1. Interpret the figure of speech

Follower, Digging		1. Compare passages for tone
Follower, Digging
1. Compare passages for tone

A Shocking Accident, from Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress		Analyze literature 1. Analyze short stories: set 1 Grammar and style 2. Identify plagiarism 3. Use in-text citations (MLA 8th–9th editions)
A Shocking Accident, from Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Analyze literature 1. Analyze short stories: set 1 Grammar and style 2. Identify plagiarism 3. Use in-text citations (MLA 8th–9th editions)
Colonial Voices
B. Wordsworth		1. Identify the narrative point of view
B. Wordsworth
1. Identify the narrative point of view

Telephone Conversation, from Midsummer XXIII		1. Match the quotations with their themes
Telephone Conversation, from Midsummer XXIII
1. Match the quotations with their themes

Games at Twilight, The Train from Rhodesia		1. Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 2
Games at Twilight, The Train from Rhodesia
1. Analyze rhetorical strategies in historical texts: set 2

No Witchcraft for Sale		1. Analyze short stories: set 2
No Witchcraft for Sale
1. Analyze short stories: set 2

Reporting from the Terrain of the Mind		Analyze literature 1. Analyze the development of informational passages: set 2 Grammar and style 2. Determine the main idea of a passage 3. Choose the topic sentence that best captures the main idea Grammar and style 4. Understand a Works Cited entry (MLA 8th–9th editions)
Reporting from the Terrain of the Mind
Analyze literature 1. Analyze the development of informational passages: set 2 Grammar and style 2. Determine the main idea of a passage 3. Choose the topic sentence that best captures the main idea Grammar and style 4. Understand a Works Cited entry (MLA 8th–9th editions)
Writing Workshop
Write a Research Paper		1. Order topics from broadest to narrowest 2. Recognize the parts of a Works Cited entry (MLA 8th–9th editions) 3. Choose the best evidence to support a claim 4. Choose the analysis that logically connects the evidence to the claim 5. Transition logically between claims, evidence, analysis, and counterclaims
Write a Research Paper
1. Order topics from broadest to narrowest 2. Recognize the parts of a Works Cited entry (MLA 8th–9th editions) 3. Choose the best evidence to support a claim 4. Choose the analysis that logically connects the evidence to the claim 5. Transition logically between claims, evidence, analysis, and counterclaims

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